Hands cocked elegantly at their hips, smiles frozen wide in anticipation, the remaining five contestants in the running for Miss World Canada 2013 stand motionless to hear the judges’ life-changing results. And then their lips purse and eyes blink rapidly as focus their nervous energy on the stammering co-host Brian Mudryk of TSN fame.

“And the winner… oh, no… hang on. What’s going on over here? I’m getting waved over here now, tons of stress.” Mudryk blurts out as he walks off the stage at Richmond’s River Rock Casino Resort.

Several excruciating minutes pass before he reappears to report back to the five women and the two dozen other contestants behind them, arms still akimbo though bodies shifting nervously back and forth ever so slightly.

“We’re going to redo it because we had to check the votes,” Mudryk says. “Apparently there was a mix-up, so the top five will come off and we’re going to have to do it again.”

A chorus of boos ring out from the crowd as he jokes with them about whether they’re at a Canucks game.

All five dutifully file off and back onto the stage and Camille Munro of Regina ends up winning the second ballot.

She will represent Canada at the Miss World 2013 pageant this September in Indonesia.

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